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AS Psychology Paper One
Attachment
Caregiver-infant interactions in humans
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Proximity
: staying physically close to who we are attached to
Separation distress
: distress when
attachment figure
leaves us
Secure base behaviour
: feeling secure when with an
attachment figure
Safe haven
: feeling safe with
attachment figure
What were Meltzoff and Moore’s findings (1977)?
They found an
association
between
infant
behaviour and the behaviour displayed by the adult
How old were the babies involved in Meltzoff and Moore’s study (1977)?
12-21
days old
Reciprocity
: the mutual exchange of responses between an
infant
and their caregiver which influences infant
behaviour
Interactional synchrony
: the
temporal
coordination of
behaviours
between an infant and their caregiver
Explain the Still Face experiment (Tronick et al 1978)
A mother interacts with their infant as normal but suddenly stops when the babies show a mutual face
How did the babies react during the still face experiment?
They initially continued making noises to try engage the mother back to into interacting with them.
When the mother didn’t respond, they became
distressed
and turned away from the mother
Insecure attachment
: mother-child relationships less
synchronous
; mothers
minimally
involved and
unresponsive
to infants
Secure attachment
: mother-child relationship at
9 months
interacted in a “well-timed and mutually-rewarding manner”